Two snapshots from the front. Before instant
The blade is sharp, sturdy knife and comfortable grip, the victim lies helpless, the blow down relentlessly. Shanghai, an afternoon of a wet day in May, at the end of the alley was a French concession.
No, there is the account of a murder. I enrolled in a course of Chinese cuisine, four lectures, and grand master of ceremonies Huang Huazheng, four followers, specifically an Australian, a Japanese, a Frenchman and an Italian, as in jokes. The kitchen, the scene of my debut on the stage of oriental cooking, is wedged between graceful plane trees and cottages with a pitched roof. No time to go and already I find myself with a blue apron, bowl, knife and slaughter chicken leg with unprecedented ferocity. Huang is quite young, will take decades, but he already knows more of the devil. The Australian seems to say just one word, "lovely!" (pronounced high-pitched voice and enthusiastic tone), and thus also known as the embarrassed chicken leg, which for the occasion blushed. The Japanese is quite skilled with the blade, hopefully does not come with a katana next time.
The first lesson includes three Shanghainese cuisine, the order Ju jiang gu (chicken in soy sauce), Xia ren dou was (tofu with shrimp and peas), Hongshaodudang (fish not identifiable, I would like cod with soy sauce, a bit 'different from above). For those who do not know tofu is a mainstay of Chinese cuisine, is made with vegetables, and can assume different shapes, colors and textures are very different from each other. At the time I have tried at least ten types different.
Overall I've gotten pretty good, sometimes it's a bit 'difficult to disentangle between the different sauces and remember the correct order in which pay in wok (Chinese frying pan) sizzling, unforgiving and Huang threatened corporal punishment in the case error. To give an idea, the ingredients for the fish are, in addition to the pulp of the pack animal, ginger, chives, soy sauce, dark (need to give more color), light soy sauce (very salty), hoisin sauce (thick consistency, I have not figured out how to do it, maybe mushrooms ...), sugar, Chinese cooking wine, salt, black pepper, flour, sesame oil, Chinese vinegar.
However, the first rule, when the wok fry a light emitting smoke and the oil temperature is suitable. Second, Chinese vinegar and sesame oil still in the end, but rather volatile. Third, ginger cut into diamond-shaped, which is more chic. Fourth, process the tofu (which has the consistency of a pudding in this case) with great delicacy and prudence, the penalty of that melted and the raspberries and whipped by Huang.
Next lesson, if I understand correctly, spicy Sichuan cuisine. Expected peppers, fire and flames.
Second Instant
The seat is comfortable, it's dark outside, a little 'sleepy, the relentless slide image with a fast pace. Shanghai, one night of a cool May evening, the parties to Beijing Lu.
No, not at the cinema. I'm on a taxi, I just finished dinner with Silvia and Nicola, I'm returning to the peaceful campus. Here are some taxis in Shanghai in the headrest of the front passenger seat a screen the same size as those that are also well documented in many aircraft. I was thinking of something else, when suddenly, after the ritual chant that sponsors a number for the booking of restaurants and bars, the screen turns on and catches my attention. What goes on the air gives a fairly accurate idea of \u200b\u200bthe pervasiveness and persistence of the megalopolis which leads the media campaign to communicate self-image of a modern world city . In recent years only in Barcelona I saw a similar care and attention to communication and branding the city.
So, back to the video: title "Taxi people", then black screen, a white line drawing of the silhouhette skyscrapers of Pudong, part music with pounding rhythm and a series of images of fashion shows, and the uninhibited pleasure-Chinese youth and that he attended the West's busiest nightclubs, dutifully listed, then the focus shifts on the tree-lined streets of the former French Concession. From here we move to the south-east, the area where you will the expo and I visited a few weeks ago. In the distance, the steel mills still in operation, while in the foreground, in the middle of the tabula rasa recently created, show some children happy with their designs made with colored pencils and markers. As in the famous Spielberg movie, the background is black and white, dark, only the children and in particular the designs of the city who think they are colored. The message is quite clear: after the Expo the city's future will be brighter.
Then you go to a fashion shop and accessories, interviewing two young peers, the camera moves with the familiar style "seasickness" now in vogue for a while 'on us too. Here then a series of tips on how to dress up to attract attention, admiration and envy of his fellow citizens to parties and social occasions. At regular intervals, starting with the deadlift abstract graphic, very common in TV channels like MTV.
Advertising Site enjoyshanghai. Ranking of the music videos of success, with veeejay in order to submit. A wheel follows a video that reminds Carbonari meetings taking place in the living rooms of the home, also Italian, to present some products (such as Tupperware, etc...) Here Allen and Cher, fully dressed, show the wonders of recent cosmetic products come from the west. A poor and unfortunate model, it seems their friend, is a guinea pig, and eventually comes out somewhat proven by exhausting session aesthetics. The use of certain products for the person here is still relatively new, I still remember the expression between the eyebrows dubiously el'incuriosito few weeks ago when I asked Chinese boys of my age can buy a deodorant. On the other hand there are others unknown to us, such as bleaching creams for the face, of which Michael Jackson probably would be a great consumer if he lived here.
One more spot of the Expo, this time the attention shifts to the attractions of the city (skyscrapers, Xintiandi, the old French Concession, the bridges over the Huangpu ...), which transformation in the area you are going to add. In the next block a young presenter, comfortable in a kitchen with a modern, minimalist design, gives a quick cooking lesson. One would expect any particular recipe, but after a few minutes the result is a fruit salad with yogurt, eaten at breakfast. This is presented as an alternative to the traditional Chinese breakfast, which is very often an almost complete meal with rice and milk, sour and salty foods, vegetables and sauces of all kinds. Hence the whole loop starts again.
Recipients of the videos are clear enough: tourists and Westerners living and working here and the new Chinese middle class which is radically transforming the city, both physically and with regard to lifestyles and daily routines. Any occasion, even a short taxi ride, it is good to inculcate the New Word. Lovely!
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